📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!
We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏
You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net
I’m visiting my friend and collaborator Dr Syuan-Jyun Sun at National Taiwan University in Taipei at the moment. He has built a wonderful supportive lab here and it is brilliant to see. Cool science already done and much more to come @beps-bangor.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social
We have made it to Sun Moon Lake for the Species on the Move conference @sotm2026.bsky.social. Beautiful location!
Are you an ECR and working on wild microbiomes and wish to attend the microbiome workshop during the ExE conference? Funding to support attendance deets here:
Not often enough but at least more often than @bjmjarrett.bsky.social 😆
Sequencing the DNA of all complex life in the UK and Ireland could generate up to almost £3 billion for the economy across agriculture, conservation, and research over the next 30 years 🧬
A new report on the Darwin Tree of Life Project @sangerinstitute.bsky.social 👇
OK, there are lots of reasons to dislike RFK, but I've worked with plenty of zoologists who would consider this to be perfectly normal behaviour.
New paper! I was very happy to be part of this study led by Pablo Rozier-Delgado using accelerometers to explore endurance in mammals. Now published in the Journal of Experimental Biology's special issue on the integrative biology of exercise 🧪🌍
I recently asked my research group for collective feedback, after seeing this blog post. I was a bit nervous about it! But it was really good and helpful.
I gave them a starter set of questions. They met without me & then shared their collective thoughts.
(1/3)
colinraffel.com/blog/getting...
I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)
Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.
medium.com/p/dont-peris...
Get in touch asap if you might be interested in developing a project together! Must have defended your PhD by Sept, and can't have spent 1 of the last 3 years in the UK. Very happy to support ECR applications to start next Spring/Summer!
🎉 Congratulations to the ASAB Video Competition winner Amaia Alcalde Anton! Check out her video: “What Did I Leave in the Fridge” 🎉 #ASABSpring2026 Want to know more? Read the paper this entry was based on: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬
Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution?
Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline 22nd of May!
🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds
Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded
Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz
#PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology
Get in touch asap if you might be interested in developing a project together! Must have defended your PhD by Sept, and can't have spent 1 of the last 3 years in the UK. Very happy to support ECR applications to start next Spring/Summer!
Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!
(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)
Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social!
If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs
i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain
Hey! Sorry for late reply. Of course you’re welcome to message me
Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa
Zebra finches on wire in Australia
⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD:
🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world
👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity
#modelling #birds #mammals #Australia
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Gen-AI has surely killed the honours dissertation as a valid assessment tool, right?
Congratulations Avery!
Ahead of ZSL's 200th Birthday on 29th April, this virtual issue celebrates the scientific work of Joan Procter (1897-1931): Herpetologist, Artist, Designer and ZSL’s Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians - FREE to read jzoblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/j... #ZSL200 #womeninSTEM @zslofficial.bsky.social
Are you an #undergrad at a UK University? Do you like insects and being outside? Do you like getting paid? If so, this summer studentship could be for you iapetus.ac.uk/wp-content/u... feat #insects #fieldwork #trees #scotland for more details and to apply: iapetus.ac.uk/new-rep-sche...
That would be up to the journal… I personally was first invited to join a board as a fairly late-stage postdoc but I’d imagine experience and expertise are more important than career stage
Obviously did not learn anything from Canada: complete collapse of northern cod in 1992, billions in compensation, major job losses, cod stock still have not recovered. Weirdly, it is never presented as a cost of not using ecology to drive policy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flyer of the course on "Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics". All information are also here: https://biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com/
In July, we will teach the 3rd biodiversity genomics course in Latin America, this time in Bogotá, following the COLEVOL meeting. We invite applications from students, postdocs and PIs from Latin America interested in learning how to analyse genomic data. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
Not sure I'd have persevered with PhD applications without Athol's insistence that I was good enough, so I owe him a lot. Mentorship can come from unexpected places! Value your elders - and don't underestimate the effect a little encouragement has on those coming behind you.
